Episodes: 357
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Neutral
Location: USA
Instagram: 1.8k followers
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Whitney Terrell - Novelist, journalist, and co-host focused on the relationship between literature, politics, race, and American life.
V.V. Ganeshananthan - Novelist, journalist, educator, and co-host whose work explores literature, politics, conflict, and global affairs.
Aruni Kashyap - India’s Youth Political Movements, Campus Protests, Political Violence, And His Novel How To Date A Fanatic.
Claudia Rankine - Her Book Triage, Collapse, Antigone, Visual Imagery, War In Gaza, And The Political Present.
Dino Martins - Cyclospora, Screwworms, The Benefits And Dangers Of Parasites, And His Book Hidden Creatures.
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro - Harry Belafonte’s Artistry, Activism, Civil Rights Work, Celebrity, And Biography Daylight Come.
Lupe Mendez - Texas Politics, ICE Raids, The Death Of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Bilingual Poetry, And Artivism.
S9 Ep. 47 Robert Moor on Rethinking Environmentalism Tree by Tree
September 10, 2026
Nonfiction writer Robert Moor joins co-hosts Christian Barter and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to talk about his new book, In Trees, and the power of “tree thinking,” a concept developed by the evolutionary biologist Robert J. O’Hara. Moor explains how this form of thought emphasizes branching, growth, and pruning, as opposed to hierarchical ordering, and shows how these principles can be identified in the work of writers like Tolstoy and Wordsworth. He explores the role the giant sequoia played...
S9 Ep. 46 G’Ra Asim on 99 Problems Finding the 1
September 03, 2026
Nonfiction writer G’Ra Asim joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new book, 99 Problems Finding the 1: a love story (sort of). Asim discusses Afropessimism, heteropessimism, and their relationship to his pursuit of love as a cis straight black man; defines the idea of “thinkful wishing”; and recalls the ways in which black couples in his family, including his parents, have modeled relationships for him. He explains how—inspired by the viral New York Times es...
S9 Ep. 45 Aruni Kashyap on India’s Cockroach Youth Movement
August 27, 2026
Novelist Aruni Kashyap joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to talk about the surprising surge of a new youth movement in India. Kashyap, the author of a new novel, How to Date a Fanatic, about young queer academics navigating the Indian campus protests of the mid-2010s, explains how the Chief Justice of India likening unemployed youth to “cockroaches and parasites” has prompted the rise of a wildly popular satirical group. He shares the history of the Cockroach Ja...
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